Strange Uniform Top- Transitional? Soviet or Post Soviet era?

[Esteban_cool]

Thanks everyone, for the input and information. It is the first and only like it I have seen. I really do like that custom made patch. Have any of you seen another like it? It appears as if he put a lot of pride in the fact that he was present in the military for the transition from the Soviet Union to the new era.

Were patches like this mass produced for folks to buy and dembel their uniforms with or did he likely make the patch himself?

They could either modify the issued patch by themselves and/or purchase another one or some more items at the Voyentorg (military tailor shop) to add to it.

Yours is a mix of both; he got some extra fabric, an officer star and artillery insignia at the shop and cut the plastic off the patch by himself to write the letters.